Man's View of a Wife
The woman's role seems to be changing with globalization. The men feel that the roles have interchanged with women becoming the bread winners while their men stay at home baby-sitting. This has been debated for a long time with women holding serious conferences like in Beijing to determine their role in the families as well as in the communities. From creation, the woman was to stay at home taking care of the children and other chores while the man went out to labor for the family. When man was created, he was given the role of taking care of his wife and children. On the other side, the woman would bear children; take care of them and the husband. With time, this was to change.
The man's expectation of a good wife is a caregiver whose work is to not only bear, but take care of the children. She is also expected to do laundry, cook and submit to the husband. The men have always been considered to be the heads of the families hence giving orders. The women were seen as passive and weak, meaning they would not carry out the chores the men did. A woman was to stay at home and knit for the family. The woman has to be faithful to her husband while the man unfortunately has a right to own other women. All these were principles held by the native man and took forever before the tables were turned. This woman also studied the bible and used the knowledge to bring her family closer to church.
Due to inflation, the roles changed. There has been increase in demands that made the roles change. The men's income was not sufficient to meet the family needs, and these women had to look for jobs. Again during the wars, many men never returned home after the wars leaving helpless families with no one to feed them. This made their women look...
There was also the problem of the same men becoming alcoholics and pending all their income on beer and other women. After the men received their pays, majority of them never went home, but rather spent their time making merry with their pay. They went home broke with a series of excuses and the woman was frustrated. The ancient woman was only allowed to work in the church compound assisting the priests with the flower gardens and other light duties. The issue of single parenting was on the rise to evasive men denying their responsibilities. They made women pregnant and yet denied. others genuinely had died and left suffering families.
With globalization, lifestyles changed hence the need for more income in the family. Global crisis also hit in and the income became hardly enough to sustain families, with daily basic commodities becoming quite expensive. The men felt that they also needed assistance and in fact preferred marrying career women other than housewives. Managing a nuclear family with one salary became almost impossible to the increased mortgage prices. With education being offered to all, the women were able to access white collar jobs although this intimidated the men at first. They were even scared of marrying a career woman.
This became too much for the women because they had to take charge of their homes as well as go to work. This brought about the introduction of the washing machines and other gadgets that would make the work at home easier for the working woman. Day cares were introduced as well as baby-sitters to take of the children while their mothers went to work. The white woman easily accessed schools and jobs unlike the women from the developing world. Today there are…
